Fastening device.



PATENTED APR. 23, 1907".

I. H. KEYS.

FASTENING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED APB..2-1. 1903.

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. FRANK r1. KEYS,

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OF CQUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.

FASTENING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23, 1907.

Application filed April 21,1903- Serial No. 153,685-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, siding at Council Bluffs, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa, have invented certain useful Improvements in Fastenin evices; and I do hereby declare that the following is'a full, clear, and exact description thereof, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a fastening device.

The object of my invention is to provide a fastening device adapted to be used in securing a curtain to a buggy top, the tent flap to a tent and be used in connection with garments and horse blankets and in fact wherever it is desirable to detachably secure two pliable members. a

In the accompanying drawings I have shown in Figure 1 an elevation of a carriage curtain secured to a top by means of my device. Fig. 2 shows a bottom view of my fastening. Fig. 3 shows a central sectional view thereof, while Fig. 4 shows a modification in which I employ a flat eye.

In carrying out my invention I use an annulus preferably in the form of a dished ring which may be plain as indicated in Figs. 1 and 4 or be suitably embellished, and extending from this annulus 2 are two ears 3 projecting from the inner edge as shown in Fig. 2 while projecting from the outer edge as disclosed in Fig. 2 are the four pins 1.

Held within the annulus 2 is a wire hook made of one piece of metal comprisin the circular members 4 and the hook 5 and this wire is snugly held within the dish of the annulus which, however, at one point has a portion removed as shown in Fig. 3 to permit the hook 5 to extend beyond the same. The ears 3 are used in securing the hook members 4 within the annulus as shown. Used in connection with this hook is an eye composed of an annulus 2 provided with the inward extending ears 3 and the projecting pins 1 and within this dished annulus are held the members 6 of the eye 7, this annulus also being slightly cut away at a point to permit the passage of the eye 7 as indicated in Fig. 2.

The distance between the hook and the upper edge of the annulus 2 is a little less than the diameter of the wire of the eye 7 as is indicated at z in Fig. 3 so that in order to se- FRANK H. KEYS, rep b of the hook as Y can only be removed in forcing the same betachmg cure the eye below the hook the hook must e sprung up to permit the passage of the eye which finally finds a seating with-in the crook is shown in Fig. 3and this eye tween the rounded edge of the annulus 2 and the hook 5. These fastening members are secured by forcing the pins through the fabric leather or other material to which they are secured and the pins are then bent over to secure the same. By this means Iprovide a fastening device which is exceedingly strong and can be used in connection with thin fabrics as the pin points are so far apart that the fabric 1s not easily torn so that this device will stand a great strain especially adapting the same to be used on buggy curtains and to be used on tent flaps, horse blankets and the like.

Where the eye is to be hidden the same may be used in the form of a flat plate as is shown at 8 in Fig. 4 provided with the projecting pin points 10 and the slot 9 adapted to accommodate the hook 5.

This fastener may be made of various sizes and could also be made small enough to be used as a glove or shoe fastener and Having thus described my said invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is,

1. A fastening of the character described including two members, one member being annular and provided with a peripheral wall cut away at one point and also having atprongs, a wire member bent upon itself intermediate its ends and having a portion lying adjacent one face of said annular member and within said peripheral wall and also having a portion projecting through said cut away portion of the wall and directed downwardly and upwardly to form a seat and then bent inwardly and outwardly over said annular member to form a fastening hook, the portion of the hook immediately adjacent said seat lying close to the annular member to form a yieldable passage to said seat and the other of said two members having an eye adapted to be sprung between the rst annular member and said hook into detachable engagement with said seat.

2. A fastening of, the character described including two members, one member being annular and provided with a peripheral wall cut away at one point and also having attaching prongs, a wire member bent upon itself intermediate its ends and having a portion lying within said peripheral wall and another portion projecting through said cut away portion of the wall, the projecting portion immediately adjacent said annular member being formed into a seat and terminating in a hook member at its free end, and the other of said two members having an eye for detachable engagement in said seat, the first mentioned annular member forming the back of the seat for cooperation with said hook to prevent accidental disconnection of the two members. a

3. Aiastening of the character described including two members, a wire member en gaged with one of the said two members, said wire member being bent intermediate its the other of said two members haying an eye for detachable engagement with said seat, I the edge of the first mentioned one of the two members adjacent said seat cooperating with the hook portion of said wire member to pre- Vent accidental displacement of the eye with respect to its seat.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK H. KEYS.

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Witnesses:

GEORGE W. SUEs, FREDERICK J. LARSON. 

